TreeShrink: fast and accurate detection of outlier long branches in collections of phylogenetic trees

Abstract Background Sequence data used in reconstructing phylogenetic trees may include various sources of error. Typically errors are detected at the sequence level, but when missed, the erroneous sequences often appear as unexpectedly long branches in the inferred phylogeny. Results We propose an...

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Main Authors: Uyen Mai, Siavash Mirarab
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Genomics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-018-4620-2